Chinook’s Edge School Division is preparing for the start of a new school year.
CESD Superintendent Ryan Sawula says students and staff will be back in the classroom for their first day of school on September 2nd.
He adds, there is a bit of uncertainty out there for parents in Alberta right now due to the potential of job action by the ATA or if the teachers will be locked out. Sawula says “we’re developing a contingency plan if that happens. I mean we’re optimistic, because there is still negotiating going on, that the government and the Alberta Teachers’ Association will be able to come up with a settlement but if something happens and it doesn’t then certainly we’ll communicate as soon as we know. You know that negotiation is ongoing between the government and the association, it isn’t at the school board level so we kind of have to wait for communication to come and then we’ll share it with our families as soon as we can, but really it is business as usual this September in Chinook’s Edge.”
Sawula notes it is a busy time of year as CESD prepares for the start of the new school calendar. He says “we’ve had our new teachers to the division in doing some mentorship training and some onboarding pieces. We’ve got other staff, we’ve got our financial secretaries coming in soon. We have our developing leaders coming in. We’ve got our administrators coming in. So lots of meetings and lots of kind of ongoing professional development and planning to kind of start the year and then, of course, in our schools our administrator teams are in and our teachers teams will be in kind of getting their classrooms ready for that first day with kids – September 2nd.”
Check out more back to school news online at cesd73.ca.
